29 June 1918

Berlin, Russian Embassy

In accordance with a long-standing plan, and after extended preparatory work, on 28 June a decree was finally approved — one whose publication the popular masses of Russia have awaited with impatience, and whose appearance has been delayed by circumstances beyond the control and will of Soviet power.

In accordance with this decree, there are declared to be the property of the Russian Socialist Soviet Federative Republic all industrial and commercial-industrial enterprises of the branches of production listed below, situated within the boundaries of the Republic: enterprises engaged in the extraction of mineral fuel, iron ore and copper ore, platinum mining, tungsten extraction, silver-lead ore and zinc extraction, asbestos, gold mining, salt extraction; enterprises engaged in the smelting of cast iron, iron and copper in raw form, the production of semi-finished products from them and the processing of these semi-finished products through rolling, drawing, stamping and chemical treatment, the manufacture of machines, all kinds of aeronautical apparatus, mechanical vehicles, shipbuilding, the manufacture of locomotives, railway cars, bridges, iron structures; the production of precision instruments, firearms, machine guns, artillery pieces and their parts, fittings, metal products; enterprises engaged in the processing of cotton, hemp, wool, flax, silk, jute, finishing and dyeing; enterprises of the electrical-technical industry; cable factories; enterprises of the sawmill and wood-working industry; tobacco and makhorka enterprises; all enterprises of the rubber industry, enterprises of the glass, crystal, mirror, porcelain, faience, tableware, bottle glass and chemical glass industry, enterprises of pottery, tilework, ceramic, majolica and terracotta production; enterprises of shoe and leather tannery factories; cement enterprises; steam mills; enterprises supplying water, gas, tramways, horse-railway lines, enterprises engaged in sewerage; enterprises of private railways and branch lines and others.

By virtue of the present decree, the property of the Soviet Republic has passed to the majority of joint-stock and partnership companies and societies, as well as a number of the largest enterprises and factories of all-state significance.

The implementation of the decree has been entrusted to the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

# MEMORANDUM TO A. D. TSYURUPA
June 1918

Is it not possible to arrange matters in such a way that detachments go for grain (to procure and transport by scheduled train) according to a twofold directive: either for a single occasion (to one volost and so forth, for the threshing of the district and so forth) and then the bonus is smaller,

or with the obligation to work over an extended period (not just once, but for 3–4 months and so forth, or again at the call of Komprod and so forth) and then the bonus—higher.

(In both cases, make it a condition that they are obliged both to procure and thresh and to transport it themselves to the granaries and to construct granaries or sheds and so forth).

*From 20 June 1918 onward, in Berlin, in accordance with the Brest Peace Treaty, a financial commission began its work. At its very first session, the German delegation presented the Russian delegation with a series of onerous demands, first and foremost the demand for immediate full payment for enterprises being nationalized in Russia after 1 July 1918 and belonging to German capitalists. The Soviet government had long been preparing a decree on the nationalization of industrial enterprises, which was adopted on 28 June 1918, of which Lenin informs the Soviet Embassy in Berlin in the present radiogram.

The document is printed according to a typewritten copy (received from TsGAOR, f. 130, op. 12, d. 103).